Emerging Technology and Open Source Software at Red Hat | Parul Singh

Please join us for a conversation with Parul Singh, a Senior Software Engineer in Red Hat’s Emerging Technology team. We will be discussing the ChRIS Project, volsync, microshift and OpenShift’s Quantum Operators.

Parul Singh, Sr. Software Engineer, Emerging Tech, Red Hat 

Joe Sepi, Open Source Engineer & Advocate, @joe_sepi 

Luke Schantz, Quantum Ambassador, @IBMDeveloper, @lukeschantz

Key Takeaways:

• [00:04 - 00:24] Intro to the episode
• [02:12 - 02:46] Intro to Parul Singh
• [03:03 - 05:25] Parul's work developing the IBM and OpenShift quantum operators
• [08:09 - 10:24] Where can quantum be applied?
• [10:43 - 13:16] The ChRIS Project, and how Parul got involved
• [16:20 - 21:11] VolSync: Overview of what it is, and what Parul is working on
• [25:58 - 29:23] What you need to know about MicroShift
• [31:49 - 34:46] Living as sustainable as possible
• [35:48 - 37:28] QUESTION: "How can a company earn money from OpenSource software?"
• [42:16 - 43:50] QUESTION: "Do you get to choose the topics that you[Parul] like to work on, and the tech stacks as well?"

Resources:

The ChRIS Project: http://chrisproject.org/

VolSync: https://github.com/backube/volsync

Microshift: https://github.com/openshift/microshift

OpenShift Quantum Operators: https://github.com/qiskit-community/openshift-quantum-operators

CubeSat Space Mission "ENDURANCE": https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/cubesat-space-mission-endurance-democratizing-access-to-space